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nathank  ·  3479 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: No, It’s Not Your Opinion. You’re Just Wrong

    What mucks it all up when a narrow set of information is assumed to be wider than it is. There is a difference between a belief and things you just didn’t know.

I've always found this to be an overwhelming cause of these issues. Dunning–Kruger effect strikes again. However, more importantly, I've never found a way to get people out of this situation. How do you encourage humility of knowledge? It seems like a combination of early education emphasizing humility and uncertainty, diverse experiences growing-up, and extensive study in at least a couple of areas to demonstrate the limits of ones own knowledge in a given field. As this article's opening quote points out, simply going to college isn't necessarily going to help.